Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?

Genuine, but a toilet paper fraud. Yuh nuh inna dat while living large.

— Mad Cobra

If networked science is to reach its potential, scientists will have to embrace and reward the open sharing of all forms of scientific knowledge,…

— Michael Nielsen

The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also a way…

— Ben Goldacre

I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again my sense…

— Marilynne Robinson

the biggest ever scientific fraud

— Andrey Kapitsa

Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because…

— Freeman Dyson

I'd just like to point out that almost all of these stories in this collection were rejected by some publication at one time or…

— Arthur Bradford

Increasingly, the balance between living in the world and not being of the world is becoming more delicate. Publications, radio, television, and the Internet…

— L. Tom Perry

In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the people whose…

— Clive James

I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure…

— Virgil Suarez

Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment…

— Herman Melville

The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

There is a deep connection between Bernoulli's dictum and John Kelly's 1956 publication. It turns out that Kelly's prescription can be restated as this…

— William Poundstone

Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

— Anne Lamott

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis